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In news that will startle exactly nobody, a Fox yapping head resorts to cheap race baiting.
During the opening of Fox Business’ Follow the Money on Friday, Eric Bolling teased a segment about the White House hosting the president of Gabon by saying, “Guess who’s coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa’s kleptocrats. It’s not first time he’s had a hoodlum in the hizzouse.”
During the tease, an image appeared of Obama meeting with the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, at the White House….
Bolling began the segment itself by saying, in part, “So what’s with all the hoods in the hizzy? A month after the White House hosted the rapper Common, who glorifies violence on cops, the president opened his doors to one of Africa’s most evil dictators. Here’s Ali Bongo, the Gabonese president, who’s been accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country’s dollars.”
And that house used to be so White House, too. But now it is infested with “gangster rappers” and dictators, oh my.
Media Matters notes that “Gabon and Bongo have a troublesome human rights record, and Obama pressured Bongo on the issue during their meeting.”
Comically enough, for reasons I certainly could not even begin to guess at, Fox didn’t employ ironic urban slang when this happened — a fascinating episode involving an honest-to-goodness convicted criminal, major lobbyist ducats, and a White House visit for the Gabonese Gangsta’s daddy:
The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with President Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Mr. Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that Mr. Abramoff had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon.
Oh that Bush. Pretty fly for a white guy, I guess.
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I am pretty damned sure that the human rights records of many of the folks St. Ronny had to dinner, and actively backed, would not bear much scrutiny. That would be especially true in Latin America.
Evening homies. As they would say on Fox Business.
The good old days of criminal bush the lesser days.
At Faux Bidniz, I am pretty sure the term that they use is “homlies.”
Because George W. Bush inviting solid citizens like Ozzy Ozborne, yeah that’s a proud American moment right there.
*heh* Was that before or after he took the whizz on the Alamo…? ;-)
you missed the best Faux segment
Judith Miller yes that Judith Miller,was complaining that ANTHONY WEINER lied to the PRESS
YUP…IRONY DIED AGAIN…and went straight to hell………smelling salts puleasssssssssssssse
ill go see if the clip is available yet
i laughed fer about an hour
Speaking of Weinergate, wtf, is this checking into Rehab noize…? Either stay and fight, or just f*cking resign already…! Rehab…? *gah*
best runner up?
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/judith-miller-criticizes-julian-assange-not
Even without the clip, Thanks :))))))))))))))
It has been a long day, so I think I will toddle off early. Take care all.
Our Kabuki Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPc2fcxOUxE
all the worlds a stage
nity nite
…who’s been accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country’s dollars.”
Do I detect jealousy that O seems to be having an African republican over?
Maybe the guy refuses to eat with Sean Hannity or other Foxnuts?
For those of you just tuning in, Mrs. JP & I really have our backs against the wall. Details are here but here are the abstracts: Last Monday the MA DOR took our rent money and then some out of our bank and had levied my checking account. So until it goes to arbitration and we get our money back, we’ll have no chance of paying our rent for June. Needless to say, we’re wide-eyed with panic.
wonder if Pat i have investments in africa Robertson was unavailable
I’m actually grading AP exams this week — intense English prof bizness. Must be up early manana. Niters!
do you have paypal?
Clearly, Eric “The Douche” Bolling is trying to position himself as heir apparent to the Glenn Beck Festival of Comedy Paranoia. Won’t that be special? I can hardly wait…
Maybe he heard that the rehab facility employs a bunch of really hot nurses to help him out with that whole rehabilitation thing.
who is this clown? does “The Douche” have his own show?
I’m just guessing that he’s sort of running for Beck’s old seat…as it were. However, it’s just a guess. They could always throw Judge Napolitano on there, too. Or maybe Ann Coulter? That could be some Prime Grade-A Entertainment.
Great diary Thers, there’s nothing in the diary or in any comments above I don’t agree with . . . I still shudder to think how low can all this go before it explodes into civil war, class war, race war, job war, shelter war, food war, water war . . . etc.